printer sharing

[Albone]

I've got an emac, a 12 inch powerbook and a HP 5550 printer. The emac is connected to a Netgear router (got Broadband) and the powerbook has airport. The printer is connected to the emac by a USB printer cable.

Is there any way to print from the 12 inch powerbook to my printer without being wired? By the way, what does printer sharing do? I have it turned on, on the emac and it doesn't seem to help.

Thanks for your help!

[pdt]

I have almost an identical setup that works (emac-wired, iBook-airport, Epson 740 printer-usb). I've found that sometimes the printer does not show up on the laptop. Usually just making sure the emac is awake and/or opening the printer utility program to make sure the printer is accepting jobs makes it work. In short, it works but it's a little flakey at times.

[abhishekit]

if you dont want to keep your emac awake all time, you can get a print server. That way, your printer would have an I.P. and you can do ipprinting on your powerbook.
cheers

[oldschool]

To wake up the eMac from your powerbook get this utility Wake Up (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17998). This way you can keep the eMac sleeping, then when you want to pring just wake up the emac remotely and print.



Works excellently for me.